Jack the Ripper's great-grandson?

[Mephisto]

Anyone ever see the movie Time After Time with Malcolm McDowell, David Warner and Mary Steenbergen? I wonder if Jack is back?

Prostitute deaths: 'Known suspects'

POSTED: 9:41 a.m. EST, December 15, 2006

PSWICH, England (CNN) -- The detective leading the hunt for the killer of five prostitutes in eastern England has said officers have a "number" of suspects despite few obvious signs of a breakthrough.

After a fifth victim was identified as prostitute Annette Nicholls on Friday, police finally linked all five cases, indicating they believe all the victims were killed by the same person. All the victims' bodies were found naked in rural areas near the town of Ipswich.

Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull told reporters Friday detectives were interested in several people, some of whom were clients of prostitutes.

"We have got a range of individuals who have been suggested to us. Some are local but some are not. Some are not punters."

Gull refused to say how many suspects but said his detectives were making "good progress."

"The launch of a fifth murder inquiry in such a short space of time is unprecedented for Suffolk constabulary," he added.

Gull said his message to the people of Ipswich, near where the five bodies have been found this month, was: "Don't panic."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/12/15/uk.prostitute/index.html
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What is it about prostitutes and serial killers?

Anyway, here's a blurb on the movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080025/

 

[ChristineR]

Jack's MO was pretty different, actually.

 

[Garrette]

I saw the movie long ago. I don't remember specifics, but I do remember enjoying it. Then

again, I've like nearly all JtR movies I've seen.

And, as ChristineR points out, the MO is vastly different.

 

[steverino]

What means being a "punter?" Never heard that one.

 

[ChristineR]

It's Brit for "John" but is also used for the guys buying strippers $7 ginger ales, and paying $100 for dirty panties, and things of that nature.

 

[Jon_in_london]

Now, where is DeBunk! Thats what the old bill should be asking!

 

[Learning Phase]

It seems strange that some guy could get by this long (Of course, I'm being sexist here, but I'll take the chance that it's a male.) in a country that has untold numbers of cameras watching every citizen's move.

They probably have a list already, with fingerprints and DNA, of everyone who has been anywhere within a 5 kilometer range of ipswitch in the last ten years.

Go Big Brother.

 

[brodski]

It's Brit for "John" but is also used for the guys buying strippers $7 ginger ales, and paying $100 for dirty panties, and things of that nature.

It cam be used more generally to mean "customer", with no sexual connotations attached. Originally it referred to someone make a bet "having a punt".

 

[Mephisto]

Jack's MO was pretty different, actually.

I realize that, but had I claimed that "Sam the Strangler's" great-grandson was on the prowl everyone would have said, "WHO?"

 

[Pyrrho]

Jack's MO was pretty different, actually.

Jack strangled his victims. The butchery was done post-mortem, or was done when the victims were unconscious.

http://www.casebook.org/

Content at this next link may be NSFW and may be emotionally disturbing:

http://casebook.org/intro.html

 

[Mephisto]

Jack strangled his victims. The butchery was done post-mortem, or was done when the victims were unconscious.

http://www.casebook.org/

Content at this next link may be NSFW and may be emotionally disturbing:

http://casebook.org/intro.html

Thanks, Pyrrho! That was interesting and not really that emotionally disturbing. I guess it could still be Jack, he just hasn't found his "tools" yet.